Word: dawson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year U. S. District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson of Louisville upheld the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Act "with extreme reluctance." Then this thin-lipped Southern Republican began to bear down on the New Deal in earnest. In quick succession he declared illegal the condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance, the NRA Bituminous Coal Code (TIME, March 11). Last week Judge Dawson struck his third blow by ruling AAA's Kerr-Smith Tobacco Control Act unconstitutional...
...Kerr-Smith Act imposed a 25% processing tax on 1934 tobacco grown without AAA contracts, a 33% tax on the 1935 noncontract crop. Unable to sign contracts because their land was rented, the Penn Brothers of Kentucky's Fayette County were assessed $7,000. They appealed to Judge Dawson for a protective injunction. Last week he declared tobacco-growing an intrastate business over which Congress had no power, ordered the Penns' $7,000 refunded, denounced the Act's "naked unconstitutionality...
...heels of Judge Dawson's ruling came a revelation that Comptroller General John R. McCarl had put AAA in the worst hole of its career. When drought began to shrivel Midwestern wheat fields AAA relieved spring wheat growers of their pledge to cut their 1935 acreage by 10%, promised they would still get some $30,000,000 in benefit payments for acreage reduction. Ruled Comptroller McCarl: No reduction, no bounties...
...District Judge Charles Irvin Dawson at Louisville, like Judge Nields at Wilmington, belongs to that huge company of Federal jurists which the Harding-Coolidge-Hoover regime left behind to plague its successors. Not only is Judge Dawson a "Block" Southern Republican but also a Businessman who resigned some years ago as board chairman of Kentucky Home Life Insurance Co. No friend, to the New Deal, he recently ruled that condemnation of private property for PWA slum clearance was beyond the Federal Government's authority. And for the second time he declared last week that the NRA Coal Code...
Granting again a temporary injunction to 35 western Kentucky soft coal operators against the code authority's enforcement of its minimum wage scale, Judge Dawson ruled: "Whenever the Government unconstitutionally interferes with the right of a citizen to do business in his own way, that interference constitutes an injury to the property rights of the citizen; and that interference takes the form of exacting payment of wages in excess of what the citizen is willing to pay. To the extent of the increased wages, this citizen has been injured in his property rights. Surely, in such a situation...